Thursday, August 30, 2007

I couldn't remember when was the last time I've ever gone to the movies with my parents.
Maybe 10yrs ago? or is it 15yrs?
I believe other than animated movies during my childhood, I've never watched any movie with my parents.

Maybe being hawkers, they don't have much time for such entertainment.
Video Tapes, Vcds, DVD and watching Channel 8 on TV are all they do when they are free

My mum was affected by the craze for the local movie '881'
Somehow it was related to the late singer "Chen Jin Lang"
Both my parents were very supportive of him and they even went to his wake last year.

I then suggested to go watch 881 last Sunday.
Since they no need to open stall on Monday.
Both my parents, me and wifey and my younger brother.

Although all of us lived together, the chances of us going out together is very rare.
It was a rather different outing apart from the usual dinner sessions we had.

Then I booked the tickets for 1930hr show.
We had our dinner at the market downstairs and proceed to Tampines Century Square.

As we reached early, there was half an hour for us to wander around before the show commences. I suggested to go to Isetan Tampines Mall as Metro had already closed down.

We walked around at Isetan and Mum begins to look for some clothes.
All of us participated in sourcing the 'best' blouse for her.
We dug deep into the carts and tore a few pieces to try.
We were joking about certain design and weird colors that she will never wear in her life.
She tried out and bought two.

As Mum went to pay for her clothes, I stood and smile, telling myself.

"I would not have done that when I was 16 or 18. Going out with parents was seen as lame or weak or mummy's boy and looked down by all your buddies. They are not highly educated and will do silly things to make you look like an idiot or lose face. Every boy will grow up to men and needs to be stay as far away from parents."

After which we proceed to watch the movie.
Well since there are already so many reviews about movie, I shall not talk here.
I saw many people bringing their parents to watch too.

What I really enjoyed was not the show but the time spent with my parents.
As both of them are in their late fifties already.

As I lay on to sleep that night, I told my wife about how I felt.
She just laughed it off.
“I just don’t understand why guys would think like that. Going out with parents is perfectly normal and enjoyable.”

It was the second happiest thing that happened in my 12 days of leave after knowing wifey given a clean bill of health from her kidney diagnose.

I’m glad I knew my mistakes now.

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

What kind of blogs we see these days?

You know these days, everyone's got a blog. Everyone is trying to tell the whole world about their daily events. How ironic when people ask you "How's ur day?", you would normally reply "It sux!" then you go write a few thousand words over ur blog to signify how sux it went.

When I started my blog, I asked myself which of the categories I can protraits my direction to?

1) CamWhore Blogs

People who post alot of photos of themselves taken with their friends, their families, their pets, their pest. people whom they like,hate,dislike,adore,want to kiss, want to kill.

These people believe pictures tell a thousand words not simply there are pictures... but its because it's pictures of THEM.
These people are the ones who generate alot of hit counts when they are really cute or hunky.

Damn I last looked at myself and decided not to waste time putting my photo.
Will get flames more than tags.

2) Creative Blogs

People who post other people's misery. It could be their parking skills, their inconsiderate act, their downblouse. I label them as creative blogs simply because they are really creative. I mean who would think of a blog to post people who anyhow park?

People who have creative blogs are those who constantly out on the go, looking for irrtating people and things happening.

I don't have that amount of time to go out to be a freelance journalist. Besides my photography skills sux... so instead of catching a photo of someone eating a burger... i might accidentally took her downblouse instead!

3) Money Making Blogs

These blogs are people who post entry to teach people how to make money. Wow... such nice people really exist.. really huh.. Maybe they earned too much then they wanna share their skills? or unproven strategy which makes you the bait to try? You decide.

I don't have money and is currenly quite broke myself.. so to teach you how to earn money might as well i go earn first!~

4) Life Blogs

These blogs are people who have a large network of friends. To have blog is to update each other how each other's life is going. Nevermind both of you had just gone to orchard together. Both of you will blog like you've not seen each other for years.

Last checked, I don't have a large network of friends... Infact most of my friends know nuts about blogging so to create a blog to tell them I'm still alive might as well jio them for kopiz.

5) Food Blogs

These blogs write about all the resturants and food center that the writer went and did his review. Well kudos to these people really cos normally I wont remember what I ate the day before, let alone writing a review about it. To me it's only "Nice or Not Nice" and "Cheap or Expensive"

Last checked, I don't have much descriptive phrases to describle food... like "juice oozing out from the steak" kinda language.. so have to give it a miss.

6) Whine Blogs

These blogs only whines... the writers have nothing good to write about. It can be about the water, transport, habits, prices, taxes, government, no money, working environment, pay, housing. All these in the comfort of their home... never realized that some parts of the world, there are people who've never seen a computer in their life.

Last checked, though I do whine and have quite a bit to complain... I would really have the time to write it out to the world.. So the world be safer because of my whining? I don't suppose so..

Finally I decided to write this StoryBlog. I hope this is something new...

Cheeerz

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Why is the meaning of blogging to me?

Lately I was very, very busy setting up my Storyblog.
Infact I've spend a great of time trying to figure out what the hell am I doing?
Why do I spend so much effort and time in doing something that have no returns?
Will people support?
Will people tell more people?
What do I really want from my blog?
Traffic so that I can generate reveune from?
Yeah, talking about traffic.
This is something which really pissed me off.
I did really stupid trying to get traffic into my blog.
I joined an awful lot of forums for no special reasons.
I put up bulletins in my friendster.
I tagged almost every single living thing I can get their blog address.
All because of one stupid reason.
To get to my blog, take a look.
If you like what you see, you'll stay and become a loyal reader.
So After doing all these, what have I gain?
Did I meet my objectives?
Monetary objective is not met and seriously lost in direction.
Time invested :- Many Many hours of my life.
Braincells invested :- Enough to write 2 stories and currently 3rd.
Emotions invested :- Have few arguements with Wifey over the time spent.
Last checked my google adsense.
Returns :- USD$16.88
It's one of the worse investment I've ever did in my life.
I don't know when the hell will I end this shit.

Sunday, August 12, 2007

Friday, August 10, 2007

Mechatronics Job Opportunities...

Brief explanation of job scope

[ Technical Side ]

1) Maintenance Engineering Assistant/Engineer
- usually involve preventive maintenance of machines, with repairing involve in a later stage.
- Reporting to a leader of the team, maintenance usually has a team dedicated to a particular area in the factory.
- Starting Pay wise - can be anything from $1600 - $1900
- Working hrs - usually shift pattern in 12hrly with allowance
- Overtime - more than you can ever imagine, thus with allowance & basic pay can easily hit $3K - $4K.
- Suitable for people who like to repair machines.
- Career prospect - EA -> Snr EA -> Lead -> Maint Supervisor

2) Process EA/Engineer
- Process EA deals with the process flow of a manufacturing plant, ensuring that Quality is in place & Yield is maintained.
- Usually work alone or maybe in pairs, Reporting to an Engineer, Process EA usually have to be in the line to prepare data & reports for Engineers to present.
- Starting Pay wise - $1600 - $1800
- Working hrs - also shift pattern
- Overtime - would say less than Maint
- Suitable for people who like to improve process
- Career Prospect - EA -> Snr EA -> AE -> Engineer
- Easier to "Shine" than Maint as decisions are to be made by you sometimes.

3) Facilities EA/Engineer
- Maint the basic environment of a building, like aircon, airflow, cleanroom status, water pipes, gases, lift etc etc. When nothing happens, you can do whatever you want... but when situation happens you have to react.
- like maint, work in a team but team is smaller and you in charge of whole building instead of a particular area.
- Starting Pay wise - $1600 - $1900
- Working hrs - also shift pattern
- Overtime - less than Maint/Process
- Suitable for people who can handle ad-hoc situations
- Career prospect - EA -> Snr EA -> Lead -> Maint Supervisor

4) Equipment EA/Engineer
- Deal with vendors on machine improvement or qualifying of new machines. When Machine is buyoff, it will be hand over to the maintenance side for up keeping and servicing.
- Starting Pay wise - $1600 - $1900
- Overtime - less than Maint/Process
- Suitable for people who likes to handle vendors and a bit of project planning and management involved.
- Career prospect - EA -> Snr EA -> AE -> Engineer

[ Supporting Group ]

5) Production Supervisor
- Production Sups handle the daily operations in the line, including man, machine, method, materials and workplace moral
- Usually works under a Production Manager / Snr Sup. Production Sup has subordinates under him to take charge.
- Starting Pay wise - $1700 - $2000
- Working hrs - also shift pattern / normal working hrs
- Overtime - also need to cover for other sups on mc/leave
- Suitable for people who like to lead and work with almost everyone in the factory.
- Career prospect - Sup -> Snr Sup -> Production Manager

6) Planner
- Planners plan the requirements for production in terms of product demand and sales forecast. Usually prepares the MPS & Machine conversion plan.
- Usually works under a Planning Manager / Master Planner.
- Starting Pay wise - $1700 - $2000
- Working hrs - Normal-working hrs
- Overtime - when you can't finish your work.
- Suitable for people who like to plan and coordinator with others to get things done.
- Career prospect - Planner -> Snr Planner -> Master Planner/Manager

7) Buyer
- Buyer works with external vendors to get quotations & prepare the purchasing ledgers. Usually work in a team but different buyers in charge of different materials.
- Usually works under a Purchasing Manager.
- Starting Pay wise - $1700 - $2000
- Working hrs - Normal-working hrs
- Overtime - when you can't finish your work.
- Suitable for people whom like to be selective in purchasing and interact with outside vendors.
- Career prospect - Buyer -> Snr Buyer -> Purchasing Manager

Other Positions.

8) Customer Service
9) Sales Engineer
10) Service Engineer

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Talent Versus Hardwork?

Do you believe in Talent or Hardwork?

I believe talent comes from interest, at the end of the day hardwork is still the way to reach your goals.

I used to have people coming up to me and tell me
"How talented you are"

I was pretty amused.
Mind you I'm really happy for that praise but am I really talented?
I don't know.

I only know I spent a hell lot of time drawing, drawing and still drawing.
The money I spent on papers and pens may be more than my transportation every month.

I was really interested in Designing... and I tried to do design in Poly.
Forunately or Unforunately my parents stopped me.

They told me that design got no future... so I opt for Engineering instead.
My grades actually sux... got 23 for Best Five... and load of crap for the rest

English - C6
Chinese - B4
Maths - B3
Science - C6
Principle of Accounts - B4
Arts - C6
History - D7

The only courses available were
1) Mechatronics Engineering
2) Offshore and Marine Engineering
3) Nursing - (?!~?!@??!?! I only like Japanese AV Nurses)

So I studied Mechatronics in 1995 Temasek Polytechnic...
Then Bachelor in Mechatronics in 2002 in University of Newcastle via Distance Learning...
Then Advance Diploma in Business Management in 2005 in MDIS...

See my efforts going further and further from where I wanted to start?

I love Phoenix

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One thing I couldn't remember would be when I started liking phoenix. Maybe I always liked those imaginary creatures and ancient chinese stuffs. Dragons,phoenix came to mind.
I've design quite abit on phoenix too... below are my works... its meant for tattoos anywayz





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Friday, August 3, 2007

Why do I write?

Sometimes I don't know the things that I really like to do...
I know my language is not as good as I would have thought.
I was never good in languages... to bottom it all.
I've got a C6 for my Olevels for English... which was really lucky.
A lot of stuffs were written long ago...
in 1997 - 2001...
That was when I wrote 'Last Wish'


How 'Lost Valentine' came about.
The idea came to me in about Jan/Feb period when the heading keep repeating in my head.
What happens if a person recieved a letter dated 10yrs ago?
How would he feel?
Will he want to find out who's the sender?
Some people told me its quite familar with II Mare,
a south korean movie which the US filmed it as 'The Lake House'
Well.. believe it or not... I've never watched either film.
My inspirations actually came from a japanese film
'Love Letters'
Finally I put all the thoughts into words and wrote my official first story.
Considering that Last Wish was a very raw story told.
I published in Keeptouch and Flowerpod.
It was pretty well received... oh well it just exceed my expectations of myself.



"Rain Angel"
I came to know Jo (Who's offically my No.4 Fan) in Keeptouch.
We talk about the stories and I began to read what she wrote too.
Jo wrote her story with the rain.
It was something about rain which struck me as long ago I wanted to write a story about a gal who know a guy in a phonebooth during a rain.
That's how I got kick start in Rain Angel and written my 1st Chapter in Tampines Mcdonalds'
However, it was not very well recieved until chapter 7...
maybe it was the pace of the story.



"Book of Love"
I did not write anything about it before, therefore its a bigger challenge as most of the time I'm caught with the next chapter.
But I write to bring more suspense and twist into the story.
Hopefully it will draw more readers....


Anntonii Lim

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Pictures I've drawn...

I remembered that I used to draw alot...
I drew so much that I've spend quite a bit of money just on paper,pens,pencils and other drawing stuffs..

I'm not as good as I think I am....
and time got up of me... and I gradually give up....

Below are some of my works... long ago...
Think in 1997.. (Wahkao...10yrs liaoz)

Will post more in future...

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Chinese Lyrics I used to write...

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Something I wrote quite long ago....

女孩向男孩诉说:"我爱你..."
男孩回应:"我也是..""
不,不, 你要说我爱你" 女孩不甘愿地说.
"这不也一样吗?"
"'我爱你'和'我也是'怎么会一样?"
"为什么你老把我爱你挂在嘴边? 如果你真的爱我就应该证明给我看"
男孩不能再忍受了.
"可是你从来都没跟我说过,我又怎么知道你真的爱我?"
"每天对一个人说一声'我爱你'有用吗?"
"我不知道对别人有没有用,但至少对我有用"
女孩开始哭了.

"怎么了? 说不过我就哭? 难道你就只会哭吗?"
男孩看不下去了.
"难道我连哭的权力都没有吗?"
女孩不想望回头.
"随便你, 反正你从来都不曾听过我的话.."
男孩开始离开了.

女孩独自留在公园里, 眼眶不时还残留泪滴.她开始回想自己和男孩的开始.
那时彼此深爱对方,从不曾争吵.
每天都会对她说"我爱你"

后来男孩忙于工作,见面的机会越来越少.但女孩每天都盼望男孩都能对她说她最想听到的话.
等了很久,沟通的机会越来越少.
女孩开始觉得男孩已经不再爱她了.

男孩独自离开公园外, 眼泪也开始落下.他开始回想自己和女孩的开始.
那时彼此支持对方,从不曾计较.
每天都会对他说"我支持你"后来女孩开始计较,关心的机会越来越少.
但男孩每天都盼望女孩都能对他说他最想听到的话.
等了很久,沟通的机会越来越少.男孩开始觉得女孩已经不再了解他了.

有时好想好好的爱一个人, 但不知道是经过时间的考验, 还是彼此已经习惯对方.
"她不会介意的吧?"
"他不是那么小气的吧?"

往往因为这样,想说和想做的事也越来越少.
人总觉得爱一个人很难,很难只是因为我们都在说和做我们自己认为对方所喜欢的.
但其实爱一个人很容易,只要做和说那个人喜欢的事就可以了.

" 没有人可以断定一段恋情的开始,没有人可以规定一段恋情的期限,
没有人可以决定一段恋情的结束,除了你自己. "

Another brand new beginning?

Someone complained that I whined too much on my Story blog.
That's why I decided to open another separate blog for my unnecessary whining about life and stuffs.

The world is really quiet at 5.28am in the morning.

As I sat down and reflect on the things I've done so far for posting my stories,
I'm actually quite impressed by myself that I was able to do all that.
Not that I was inspired to be a writer anyway.

My interest was more towards Designing... especially Fashion Design.
It's kinda strange if you ask me...
But in this separate blog, you will see another side of me...
Maybe you will like it, maybe you don't
but you have a choice....

Anntonii